Previous research has documented the fragmented nature of software development work.
To explain this in more detail, we analyzed software developers' day-to-day information …

A key collaborative hub for many software development projects is the bug report repository.
Although its use can improve the software development process in a number of ways …

Every bug has a story behind it. The people that discover and resolve it need to coordinate,
to get information from documents, tools, or other people, and to navigate through issues of …

Ethnography is a qualitative research method used to study people and cultures. It is largely
adopted in disciplines outside software engineering, including different areas of computer …

Abstract Traditionally, Systems Analysis and Design (SAD) research has focused on ways of
working and ways of modeling. Design ecology–the task, organizational and political context …

Software development projects are inherently cooperative, requiring many developers to
coordinate their efforts to produce complex systems. An integral part of this process is the …

Computer-aided design (CAD) has become indispensable to increasingly collaborative
hardware design processes. Despite the long-standing and growing need for collaboration …

Information hiding is one of the most important and influential principles in software
engineering. It prescribes that software modules hide implementation details from other …

One of the reasons large-scale software development is difficult is the number of
dependencies that software engineers face. These dependencies create a need for …

The principle of information hiding has been very influential in software engineering since its
inception in 1972. This principle prescribes that software modules hide implementation …